Syringe control device

• US 20070058482A1
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Antera Biotech Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tera Autotech Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Yi-Lung
• Application Number:
  US11/280,176
• Publication Number:
  US 20070058482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 366/15
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/143 Quality control, feedback systems
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/0227 Details of motor drive means B01L3/0231, B01L3/0234 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/1016 Control of the volume dispensed or introduced

Abstract

A syringe control device includes a linear reciprocating mechanism and a syringe mechanism. The linear reciprocating mechanism has a power drive including an electric control unit and an actuation rod driven by the power drive to act a linear reciprocating motion. The actuation rod has a first contact portion provided with two electrically conductive contacts electrically connected to the electric control unit. The syringe mechanism has a syringe unit including a second contact portion made of electrically conductive material and corresponding to the first contact portion of the actuation rod. When the first contact portion of the actuation rod contacts the second contact portion during the linear reciprocating motion, a signal will be sent to the electric control unit for controlling the displacement of the actuation rod so as to further control the syringe amount of the syringe unit.

Claims

1. A syringe control device comprising:

a linear reciprocating mechanism, which has a power drive including an electric control unit and an actuation rod driven by the power drive to act a linear reciprocating motion, the actuation rod having a first contact portion provided with two electrically conductive contacts electrically connected to the electric control unit; and

a syringe mechanism located under the linear reciprocating mechanism and having at least one syringe unit including a barrel and a plunger, the plunger having a second contact portion made of electrically conductive material and corresponding to the first contact portion of the actuation rod.

2. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the two electrically conductive contacts is made of a copper piece.

3. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the syringe mechanism comprises a plurality of said syringe units each of which can be moved by rotation or linear reciprocating movement to a location corresponding to the first contact portion of the actuation rod.

4. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the linear reciprocating mechanism is a motored cylinder comprising a body formed of a hollow cylinder, the power drive formed of a motor mounted inside the body, and the actuation rod screwed with the motor and driven by the motor to act the linear reciprocating motion.

5. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the actuation rod comprises a first portion having an outer thread, and a second portion having a center hole with an inner thread screwed onto the outer thread of the first portion such that the first portion and the second portion are connected, the second portion having an end forming said first contact portion.

6. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first contact portion is provided at two sides thereof with a recess respectively for receiving the two electrically conductive contacts, wherein the electrically conductive contacts are fixed to the first contact portion by two fasteners and slightly protruded from a bottom of the first contact portion.

7. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the electrically conductive contacts are electrically connected to the electric control unit by two conducting wires.

8. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 7, further comprising a first holding member mounted on the actuation rod, a second holding member mounted on the body of the motored cylinder, and a tensile spring has an end terminating as a hook hung on the second holding member and the other end terminating as a hook;

wherein the total length of the tensile spring without extension is shorter than the distance between the first holding member and the second holding member;

wherein the conducting wires each have an end electrically connected to one of the electrically conductive contacts, and the other end passing through the first holding member and the hook of the other end of the tensile spring and connecting electrically to the electric control unit

9. The syringe control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the syringe mechanism has a rotary disk and a plurality of bearing members surrounding the rotary disk and holding a plurality of said syringe units.